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=== Machine Learning Meetup @ Noisebridge ===
Meetings are at at 2169 Mission St. We're currently voting on when to have the next weekly meeting:
Meetings are at at 2169 Mission St. We're currently voting on when to have the next weekly meeting:


http://doodle.com/9w2x7vf3xvsz4k5h
http://doodle.com/9w2x7vf3xvsz4k5h


=== Topics to Learn and Teach ===
=== Topics to Learn and Teach ===
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*Estimation of Misclassification [http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/~srihari/CSE555/Chap9.Part5.pdf]
*Estimation of Misclassification [http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/~srihari/CSE555/Chap9.Part5.pdf]
*Classifier Combination [http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/~srihari/CSE555/Chap9.Part6.pdf]
*Classifier Combination [http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/~srihari/CSE555/Chap9.Part6.pdf]
=== Possible Projects ===
*[[Online Machine Learning Toolkit]]
=== Presentations and other Materials ===
* [[Awesome Machine Learning Applications]] -- A list of cool applications of ML
* [[Hands-on Machine Learning]], a presentation [[User:jbm|jbm]] gave on 2009-01-07.


=== Notes from Meetings ===
=== Notes from Meetings ===
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[[Machine Learning Meetup Notes: 2008-12-17]]
[[Machine Learning Meetup Notes: 2008-12-17]]
=== Presentations and other Materials ===
* [[Awesome Machine Learning Applications]] -- A list of cool applications of ML
* [[Hands-on Machine Learning]], a presentation [[User:jbm|jbm]] gave on 2009-01-07.
=== Possible topics ===
It would be nice to have a cache of topics we might want to discuss at future meetings; this is a placeholder to keep track of them.  If you'd like to present on a Wednesday, but aren't sure what to do it on, consider researching one of these topics and presenting that.

Revision as of 09:54, 15 April 2010

Machine Learning Meetup @ Noisebridge

Meetings are at at 2169 Mission St. We're currently voting on when to have the next weekly meeting:

http://doodle.com/9w2x7vf3xvsz4k5h


Topics to Learn and Teach

  • Linear Regression
  • Linear Discriminants
  • Decision Theory (Bayesian)
  • Maximum Likelihood
  • Neural Nets/Radial Basis Functions
  • Bias/Variance Tradeoff, VC Dimension
  • Clustering/PCA
  • No-Free Lunch Theorem [1]
  • Graphical Modeling
  • Support Vector Machines
  • k-Means Clustering
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Bagging, Bootstrap, Jacknife [2]
  • Generative Models: gaussian distribution, multinomial distributions, HMMs, Naive Bayes
  • Metric spaces and what they mean
  • Fundamentals of probabilities
  • Information Theory: Entroy, Mutual Information, Gaussian Channels
  • A basic decision tree builder, recursive and using entropy metrics
  • Estimation of Misclassification [3]
  • Classifier Combination [4]

Possible Projects

Presentations and other Materials

Notes from Meetings

Machine Learning Meetup Notes: 2010-04-14 -- (re)Starting new Machine Learning Meetup!

(We've fallen off the notes bandwagon, sorry.)

Machine Learning Meetup Notes: 2009-04-01 -- Finally moving on up: fully-connected backpropagation networks.

Machine Learning Meetup Notes: 2009-03-25 -- We made perceptrons - added sigmoid, etc.

Machine Learning Meetup Notes: 2009-03-18 -- We made perceptrons - linear function support!

Machine Learning Meetup Notes: 2009-03-11 -- We made perceptrons!

Machine Learning Meetup Notes: 2009-03-04 -- Josh gave a presentation on SVMs

(time is missing!)

Machine Learning Meetup Notes: 2009-02-11 -- Josh gave a presentation on clustering, donuts!

Machine Learning Meetup Notes: 2009-02-04 -- Free-form hang out night, punch and pie

Machine Learning Meetup Notes: 2009-01-28 -- Praveen talked about Neural networks

Machine Learning Meetup Notes: 2008-01-21 -- Jean gave a quick overview of machine learning stuff

Machine Learning Meetup Notes: 2009-01-14 -- Ian gave a talk on k-Nearest Neighbor

Machine Learning Meetup Notes: 2009-01-07 -- Josh did a quick intro to ML presentation

Machine Learning Meetup Notes: 2008-12-17